The fortresses were basically breached from within.

Kaifeng Mansion City was already surging undercurrent, and although Governor Wu Fu expected the possibility, he could not grasp the real situation below.

The rumors in the city are already flying all over the sky, and what is even more terrifying is that some of them are spreading these rumors everywhere, and some people even say that even if the Liukou conquers Kaifeng City, they will also attack those corrupt officials and evil officials, and they will not be polite to those gentry and rich households, as for the ordinary people, they will not encounter disasters.

A series of bad news made Governor Wu Fu have no time to react, and naturally no one stood up to refute these rumors.

Liukou is attacking the Fengfu City every day, but the intensity of the attack is obviously not as strong as before, and the main attention of officials at all levels is to protect the city, and they can't control the rumors circulating in the city.

As the battle continued, the casualties of the sergeants increased, and Wu Fu sensed the obvious shortage of troops, and recruiting the sergeants to guard the city became a must.

Although the imperial court has recruited sergeants for many years, and there is no need to change the household registration when entering the army, the common people still think that the sergeants in the army are military households, and you must know that the status of military households is very low, there is no freedom, and they are constantly exploited by officers.

After the notice of the governor's yamen recruiting sergeants was posted, there were very few applicants.

The city of Kaifeng is already in danger, and if it can't recruit soldiers for a long time, the fall of the city is inevitable.

After thinking about it, Wu Fu made a decision, removing many restrictions on recruiting sergeants, and not investigating the household registration of individuals, whether they were hooligans or ruffians, as long as they were young and strong in Kaifeng Prefecture. All of them can be registered.

Wu Fu also made this decision helplessly, but it was this decision that caused the ancient capital of the Eight Dynasties to fall into ruin.

After the conditions were relaxed, a day passed, and nearly 2,000 people were recruited, almost all of whom were young and strong.

These people were quickly enriched into the army. It's just that these people can't go to the city wall to defend against the enemy immediately, after all, they don't have any actual combat experience, so they are used to guard the city gates in the south, east, west, and north, focusing on guarding the city gates and corridors.

Gu Junen once planted two hundred people in the city of Kaifeng Prefecture, the number is not very many, but they are all the elite of the righteous army, these people originally did not have much chance to make trouble, but this time the governor yamen recruited sergeants, giving them a chance.

Among the lurking people. After careful preparation, the leading rebel officer bribed the officer who recruited the sergeant, and let the two hundred people who had lurked enter the army, and when the formation was gathered, they went to guard the east gate together.

Kaifeng Mansion City is also divided into the inner city and the outer city, the inner city was the imperial city during the Great Song Dynasty, and its city gate is naturally divided into the inner city gate and the outer city gate. The recruited sergeants need to guard the outer gates, and the most important outer gates of the capital city. The first is the south gate, followed by the east gate, and the city gates of these two places are also the city gates that the Liukou focus on attacking.

The newly recruited sergeants, in groups of 200 to 300 people, mainly guarded the city gates and corridors. In order to prevent the gates from being hit by the attacking bandits, if they had to do so, they had to transport stones and other blocks to block the gates and roads, so that even if the gates hit the gates, they would not have the slightest effect. It should be said that this is not a very important task, after all, there are soldiers on the city wall to defend against the rogues, and the rogues basically have few chances to kill the city walls, let alone hit the city gates.

Therefore, 200 to 300 men were arranged to guard the city gates, also just in case.

The sergeants guarding the city gate are generally in three shifts, each shift is responsible for six hours, three shifts take turns to wait, and after each shift waits for six hours, they can rest for a day, but in the case of war emergency, the possibility of the sergeant resting for a whole day is not large, they are basically the same as the sergeants guarding the city wall, and the rest time is mainly to sleep and replenish physical strength.

The newly recruited sergeants cannot be responsible for the task of guarding the city gate alone, they are all under the leadership of veterans, and these veterans are mainly the sergeants who guard the yamen in the city, that is, the sergeants who were previously responsible for opening and closing the city gate and standing guard at the city gate.

The city was already in fear, and the two hundred Righteous soldiers who had entered the army soon found an opportunity to wait alone at the east gate, and they guarded it for six hours, from the hour of the night to the hour of the next morning.

The current time is from 10 o'clock in the evening to 10 o'clock the next morning.

This is the most difficult period of time, after all, it is an all-night duty, and ordinary people are unwilling to do it, and these two hundred people are newly recruited sergeants, so they naturally have to undertake this most difficult task.

After receiving such a task, the rebel officer who commanded these two hundred people was ecstatic, although the sergeant on the city wall was also on duty all day, but in the middle of the night, people were relatively tired, such a time could send the news in the city out, so that the rebel army would focus on the east gate, and the two hundred sergeants could take advantage of the night opportunity to open the east gate and let the rebel sergeant enter the city, as long as the rebel army broke through the outer city, it was very simple to take the inner city.

Two hundred sergeants joined the army guarding the city, and after only three days, they found an opportunity to attack.

The hearts of the people in the city of Kaifeng Mansion have been dispersed, especially after the news of the death of Sun Chuanting, the governor of the five provinces, was transmitted, and the officials and sergeants waiting in the city thought that there was not much hope, and the governor Yamen had no attitude for a long time, and there were no words to appease people, which made many people begin to think about the way back, that is, what to do after the fall of Kaifeng Mansion.

Even Zhu Gongfang, the king of Zhou, was ready, the palace guards were already on full alert, once the Kaifeng Mansion was captured by the Liukou, they desperately wanted to escort the prince out of the palace and move to a safe place.

Under such circumstances, many loopholes have quietly appeared in the ostensibly heavily guarded city walls and gates.

The news was unknowingly delivered to Li Zicheng and others outside the city through bows and arrows.

In a battle with the official army outside the city of Kaifeng, Li Zicheng's losses were also heavy, so that it was difficult to concentrate strong forces to attack the city of Kaifeng, although it was necessary to launch an attack every day, but the momentum was not very large, and the officers and troops desperately evacuated to Zhuxian Town, which once made Li Zicheng furious, but later learned that Sun Chuanting was killed, Li Zicheng was happy again.

However, the weakness of the offensive made Li Zicheng anxious, but there was no way.

From a practical point of view, if he did not get major support, or if the soldiers in Kaifeng Mansion City resisted desperately, Li Zicheng would not have had a chance to capture Kaifeng Mansion City, and after more than half a month of fighting, his confidence had begun to waver.

Suddenly got the information, Li Zicheng, Gu Junen, Liu Zongmin and others were all ecstatic, and they didn't expect that the two hundred righteous soldiers who were placed in the city of Kaifeng Mansion would play an important role at the critical moment.

The task of attacking the east gate was given to Liu Zongmin.

The timing of the offensive also changed, starting from Shen Shi and stopping at night, and the army was stationed outside the east gate.

But on the surface, the focus of the rebel army's attack was still on the south gate, mainly in the large number of sergeants attacking the south gate.

But the elite of the righteous army was all drawn to attack the east gate.

Li Zicheng was also worried that this was not the fake news sent by the officials and soldiers in the city to lure the righteous army to attack from the east gate, but after careful analysis, Gu Junen thought that this must be true, Kaifeng Mansion was besieged for more than a month, and he couldn't get any news from the outside world, and the officials in the city were anxious about how to contact the outside world, and even worried about their own future safety.

This made Li Zicheng make up his mind to gamble.

He even drew his own soldiers to join the attack on the east gate.

May 24, 14th year of Chongzhen.

The attack on the south gate suddenly became fierce, and the rogues changed their previous momentum and charged desperately towards the south gate, seeing that the attack of the rogues was getting stronger and stronger, the officers who commanded the battle began to send troops from other places to help the south gate, including the sergeants stationed at the east gate.

It is impossible to transfer the two hundred volunteer soldiers who are in charge of night duty, and they are still resting at this time.

After dark, the rogues were still attacking, and they had no intention of stopping.

The fierce attack of the Liukou finally focused the attention of the governor Wu Fu and the ordinary sergeants to the south gate.

The East Gate guards were a little weaker.

At that time, the attack on the east gate suddenly began.

This time the attack was different from the previous ones, and the main direction of the Liukou's attack was concentrated at the city gate.

At this time, two hundred sergeants in charge of guarding the east gate had taken over.

An hour later, a sub-hour.

The east door was suddenly opened.

The 200 sergeants guarding the east gate suddenly attacked and killed the other sergeants on the left and right sides of the gate, 100 of them were guarding the exit of the road, and the remaining 100 went to open the gate.

By the time the officers and sergeants on the walls realized that something was wrong, it was too late, and the rogues had already rushed in through the east gate.

The tragic battle unfolded in an instant.

Some of the guards at the east gate had been transferred to the south gate, and although the rogue in the direction of the east gate also attacked, the officer thought that it was already dark and it was impossible for the rogue to attack on a large scale, so he did not report to the top, and no one thought that the two hundred soldiers guarding the city gate would suddenly attack.

The rogue concentrates the elite power, and is well prepared.

The sergeants guarding the east gate suffered heavy losses and began to retreat......

Got the news of the loss of the east gate, Wu Fu calmed down a lot, he did not get angry, but began to arrange many matters in the city, and sent someone to inform Zhu Gongfang, the king of Zhou, that at this time, it was necessary to consider the evacuation matters, and many officials and scholars in the city could evacuate how much.

Kaifeng, the ancient capital of the Eight Dynasties, fell like this, Wu Fu understood what his fate would be, he did not plan to evacuate, but to fight the Liukou to the end...... (To be continued......)